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Recent Examples of pothole
Kids of all ages can jump in the driver’s seat of big road and bridge vehicles, learn crosswalk safety, fill potholes, microchip a stuffed animal, be a junior building inspector, plan a city, and more.
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Laura Daily, Denver Post, 4 June 2025
But some analysts say the market’s optimism is doing cartwheels over a policy pothole.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 13 May 2025
Those choices will likely dictate whether the ultimate story of this recent two-season stretch is more of a speed bump on the road to further success or a pothole that sent them careening off the highway.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Courtenay Brown Mar 6, 2025 - Business Trump stares down early economic potholes
Buy your local economist a drink: The economic backdrop is more chaotic and uncertain than it's been in years — a result of fast-moving and sometimes vague Trump policy.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
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Laura Daily, Denver Post, 4 June 2025
But some analysts say the market’s optimism is doing cartwheels over a policy pothole.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 13 May 2025
Those choices will likely dictate whether the ultimate story of this recent two-season stretch is more of a speed bump on the road to further success or a pothole that sent them careening off the highway.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Courtenay Brown Mar 6, 2025 - Business Trump stares down early economic potholes
Buy your local economist a drink: The economic backdrop is more chaotic and uncertain than it's been in years — a result of fast-moving and sometimes vague Trump policy.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothole
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Elsewhere, the long-range outlook from the Climate Prediction Center doesn't indicate any other storm development over the Atlantic hurricane basin, including the Caribbean, before July 8.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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Testers maintained the sterilizer by wiping down the water basin after each use and occasionally washing the large bin.—
Olivia Campbell,
Parents,
24 June 2025
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This data can be used to inform government investments in risk reduction, such as ecological forest management and floodplain management, which will likely make insurance markets much healthier over time.—
Jordan Haedtler,
Mercury News,
24 May 2025
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The study found that if a major Cascadia earthquake struck today, floodplains could grow by as much as 300 square kilometers (about 116 square miles), more than doubling the number of homes, roads, and structures exposed to flooding.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
20 June 2025
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Intense rainfall, as common in tropical latitudes, and water vapor in the eruption column can mix with volcanic ash and debris, forming deadly mudflows called lahars by geologists after an Indonesian word for ravines on the slopes of a volcano.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The route includes many iconic Romanesque churches and beautiful landscapes, including the Rio Dulce natural park, and the canyon of Caracena.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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On the night of the shooting, officers arrived at the scene of the call and found Rasmussen shot in the torso and lying in a nearby canyon, Provence said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
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An anonymous donor placed the nugget into a Salvation Army kettle during the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign in December 2024.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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To do it, the brewers ran hot wort from the kettle down the channel of a split 12-foot section of a pine tree.—
Jonathan Shikes,
Denver Post,
14 Apr. 2025
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The focus makes sense considering the equestrian heritage of the French luxury brand, which got its start in 1837 as a harness and saddle maker.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
17 June 2025
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My next group trips were out of the saddle: one was camping and kayaking in British Columbia; the other a week of rafting and hiking around Costa Rica.—
Kathy Roberson,
Travel + Leisure,
15 June 2025
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While icebergs and rocky shorelines dominate the Antarctic coastline that cruise ships navigate, the heart of the continent is another world, one of shimmering blue ice tunnels and crevasses, jagged mountain peaks, and vast moonscapes.—
Chloe Berge,
Outside Online,
17 June 2025
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This living history left Kehlmann aware of how moral crevasses, narrow and wide, can form.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
6 May 2025
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The gulch is in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Apr. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Pothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothole. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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